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Measuring organizational cultures: a qualitative and quantitative study across twenty cases.

By Hofstede, Geert; Neuijen, Bram; Ohayv, Denise Daval; Sanders, Geert
Publication: Administrative Science Quarterly
Date: Friday, June 1 1990

This paper presents the results of a study on organizational cultures in twenty units from ten different organizations in Denmark and the Netherlands. Data came from in-depth interviews of selected informants and a questionnaire survey of a stratified random sample of organizational members. Data on task, structure, and control characteristics of each unit were collected separately. Quantitative measures of the cultures of the twenty units aggregated at the unit level, showed that a large part of the differences among these twenty units could be explained by six factors, related to establis

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